Western Philosophy Multiple Choice Questions
1. The original principle of this universe is——- according to Thales
A. water
B. fire
C. air
D. ether
Answer: A. water
2. Thales is a—— philosopher
A. milesian
B. hebrew
C. arab
D. german
Answer: A. milesian
3. ——– was counted among the Seven Wise Men
A. plato
B. socrates
C. thales
D. aristotle
Answer: C. thales
4. The arche of things is apeiron, according to ——
A. plato
B. socrates
C. tales
D. anaximander
Answer: D. anaximander
5. According to Anaximenes— is the first principle
A. fire
B. water
C. infinite
D. air
Answer: D. air
6. Who said number is the essence and basis of all things?
A. descartes
B. pythagoras
C. anaxagoras
D. kant
Answer: B. pythagoras
7. Who is known as the Father of Western Philosophy?
A. thales
B. plato
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Answer: A. thales
8. Who advocated theory of atoms?
A. plato
B. democritus
C. thales
D. leibnitz
Answer: B. democritus
9. Who is the main atomist?
A. leibnitz
B. leucippus
C. pythagoras
D. kepler
Answer: B. leucippus
10. Protagoras is a ——Philosopher
A. sophist
B. spiritualist
C. religious
D. idealist
Answer: A. sophist
11. Man is the measure of all things, according to ——
A. thales
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. protagoras
Answer: D. protagoras
12. Democritus and Leucippus are belonging to—— school
A. ionian
B. atomist
C. idealist
D. eleatic
Answer: B. atomist
13. —– was the first Athenian born Philosopher
A. thales
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. socrates
Answer: D. socrates
14. Knowledge is relative associated with
A. protagoras
B. pythagoras
C. anaximander
D. thales
Answer: A. protagoras
15. Maieutic method is by ——Philosopher
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. socrates
D. democritus
Answer: C. socrates
16. Who said that the unexamined life is not worth living?
A. anximander
B. plato
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Answer: C. socrates
17. Socrates is a prominent —— philosopher
A. greek
B. pragmatist
C. german
D. french
Answer: A. greek
18. Whose doctrine is ?Know Thyself?
A. plato
B. thales
C. protagoras
D. socrates
Answer: D. socrates
19. Socrates is a mentor of ——–
A. democritus
B. sophists
C. plato
D. pythagoras
Answer: C. plato
20. —- invented the dialectic method of finding truth through conversation
A. socrates
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. all are true
Answer: A. socrates
21. Athens where Plato established ——, the first university in the Western world
A. lyceum
B. dialectics
C. academy
D. all are true
Answer: C. academy
22. In his famous Allegory of the Cave,—– relates a story illustrating the journey of the soul from ignorance to knowledge.
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. socrates
D. protagoras
Answer: A. plato
23. The Republic is the famous work of ———
A. socrates
B. thales
C. plato
D. sartre
Answer: C. plato
24. Theory of truth lies in the theory of Ideas is the philosophy of
A. socrates
B. pythagoras
C. aristotle
D. plato
Answer: D. plato
25. Who distinguished world of ideas and physical world?
A. plato
B. socrates
C. aristotle
D. kant
Answer: A. plato
26. Aristotle mentioned theory of truth in his work——
A. analytic
B. ethics
C. epistemology
D. metaphysics
Answer: D. metaphysics
27. For Plato, —- are eternal ideas beyond the physical world.
A. forms
B. dialectics
C. phenomenon
D. episteme
Answer: A. forms
28. Who wrote Symposium?
A. thales
B. aristotle
C. plato
D. anaxagoras
Answer: C. plato
29. Aristotle was a student of —
A. plato
B. socrates
C. protagoras
D. anaximander
Answer: A. plato
30. Who founded a school in Athens called Lyceum.
A. aristotle
B. plato
C. socrates
D. sophists
Answer: A. aristotle
31. ——-There is no form without matter and no matter without form.?
A. leucippus
B. plato
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Answer: D. aristotle
32. Matter is the substance out of which everything in the world is made is the statement of —–
A. anaxagoras
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. socrates
Answer: C. aristotle
33. Who discovered four causes that govern change in everything?
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. st.augustine
D. st.anselm
Answer: B. aristotle
34. Who believed that God created the world out of nothing and before God created the world nothing existed?
A. anaximander
B. plato
C. socrates
D. st. augustine
Answer: D. st. augustine
35. The City of God is the work of —-
A. st. augustine
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. pythagoras
Answer: A. st. augustine
36. ——- predicted an eclipse of the sun
A. thales
B. pythagoras
C. socrates
D. plato
Answer: A. thales
37. Who was the first Milesian materialist philosopher?
A. heraclitus
B. anaximander
C. pythagoras
D. thales
Answer: D. thales
38. The major source of Thales?s philosophy is by
A. plato
B. pythagoras
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Answer: D. aristotle
39. Who said that living things are always moist?
A. plato
B. socrates
C. tales
D. anaximander
Answer: C. tales
40. Anaximander belongs to ——–
A. stagira
B. miletus
C. samos
D. all are false
Answer: B. miletus
41. Anaximander, a philosopher came after ——
A. anaximenes
B. plato
C. socrates
D. thales
Answer: D. thales
42. apeiron in Anaximander means —–
A. formal logic
B. infinite
C. eidos
D. hyle
Answer: B. infinite
43. Anaximander’s cosmogony gives rise to a
A. heliocentric
B. teleological
C. geocentric
D. god
Answer: C. geocentric
44. Who said that in the beginning man was similar to a different animal,
namely, a fish.
A. anaximander
B. leucippus
C. pythagoras
D. thales
Answer: A. anaximander
45. The thinkers of Milesian school were the thinkers of ——
A. metaphysics
B. nature
C. religion
D. idealism
Answer: B. nature
46. Pythagoras was born on——-
A. samos
B. iona
C. athens
D. all are false
Answer: A. samos
47. Who believed in the immortality, transmigration, and reincarnation of
souls?
A. ionians
B. atomists
C. pythagoras
D. eleatic
Answer: C. pythagoras
48. Who included various dietary restrictions against meat and beans.
A. thales
B. pythagoras
C. anaximander
D. socrates
Answer: B. pythagoras
49. Central to Pythagoreanism is the idea that ——— accounts take precedence over material things.
A. numbers
B. zeros
C. music
D. god
Answer: A. numbers
50. ——is a Philosopher who made a distinction between mind and matter
A. anaxagoras
B. thales
C. socrates
D. democritus
Answer: A. anaxagoras
51. Who said that everything is a mixture of earth, air, fire, and water
A. anaximander
B. plato
C. socrates
D. anaxagoras
Answer: D. anaxagoras
52. ——- philosopher is the main source of Anaxagoras
A. socrates
B. pythagoras
C. plato
D. herodotus
Answer: C. plato
53. —–gave a power and grandeur to Athenian Democracy
A. pericles
B. thales
C. protagoras
D. anaximander
Answer: A. pericles
54. — –is an important element introduced by Anaxagoras into his
philosophy and it is the cause of motion.
A. change
B. god
C. matter
D. mind/ nous
Answer: D. mind/ nous
55. The atomists are the last pre-Socratics and they follow——
A. physis
B. religion
C. theism
D. idealism
Answer: A. physis
56. The word atom means —-
A. cuttable
B. thesis
C. antithesis
D. uncuttable
Answer: D. uncuttable
57. ——is believed to be a disciple of Leucippus
A. protagoras
B. democritus
C. anaximander
D. plato
Answer: B. democritus
58. —— say that all things consist of a single kind of matter broken into
tiny particles.
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. atomists
D. protagoras
Answer: C. atomists
59. Who claimed that there are two fundamental types of elements: atoms
and void.
A. socrates
B. atomists
C. plato
D. idealist
Answer: B. atomists
60. Who held that the atoms were so small as to be invisible?
A. democritus
B. pythagoras
C. aristotle
D. plato
Answer: A. democritus
61. Sophia which means —–
A. wisdom
B. speech
C. action
D. concept
Answer: A. wisdom
62. Protagoras a native of ——–in northeast Greece
A. clazomen
B. samos
C. stagira
D. abdera
Answer: D. abdera
63. Who was the first of the professional Sophists?
A. socrates
B. democritus
C. protagoras
D. plato
Answer: C. protagoras
64. Who said that instead of speaking well think well?
A. thales
B. aristotle
C. plato
D. socrates
Answer: D. socrates
65. Truth and On the Gods are the woks of ——-
A. plato
B. socrates
C. protagoras
D. anaximander
Answer: C. protagoras
66. —— were more concerned with public speaking, rather than thinking
well.
A. materialists
B. rationalists
C. idealists
D. sophists
Answer: D. sophists
67. Man is the measure of all things, says —–
A. leucippus
B. protagoras
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Answer: B. protagoras
68. Maieutic means —–
A. midwifery
B. dialectical
C. perceptual
D. universal
Answer: A. midwifery
69. — ?says that knowledge is an adjustment between the knower and the
object known
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. protagoras
D. st.anselm
Answer: C. protagoras
70. —–was known as a self- taught philosopher
A. anaximander
B. plato
C. socrates
D. st. augustine
Answer: C. socrates
71. Who was known as the street genius philosopher?
A. socrates
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. pythagoras
Answer: A. socrates
72. Who was the author of philosophic tendency and of a Philosophic
method of irony?
A. socrates
B. aquinas
C. plato
D. protagoras
Answer: A. socrates
73. Who said that the first step is to be wise is to admit that one is not wise.
A. plato
B. anselm
C. socrates
D. thales
Answer: C. socrates
74. According to ——, knowledge is virtue and ignorance is vice
A. thales
B. plato
C. pythagoras
D. socrates
Answer: D. socrates
75. Who said that as virtue is knowledge, so virtue can be thought?
A. leucippus
B. protagoras
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Answer: C. socrates
76. The highest ideal according to Socrates is —–
A. matter
B. dialectical
C. statement
D. virtue
Answer: D. virtue
77. Concept means ——
A. judgment
B. idea
C. virtue
D. particular
Answer: B. idea
78. The mentor of Aristotle is —
A. plato
B. socrates
C. academy
D. lyceum
Answer: A. plato
79. Who was the founder of Academy?
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. socrates
D. protagoras
Answer: A. plato
80. Apology is the famous work of ———
A. socrates
B. thales
C. plato
D. sartre
Answer: C. plato
81. The concepts lies in the transcendental world is the philosophy of ——–
A. socrates
B. pythagoras
C. aristotle
D. plato
Answer: D. plato
82. Who distinguished knowledge and doxa?
A. plato
B. socrates
C. aristotle
D. kant
Answer: A. plato
83. The theory of forms/ideas/concepts/essences is the Philosophy of ——-
A. aristotle
B. plato
C. thales
D. pythagoras
Answer: B. plato
84. Plato wrote —— dialogues
A. 37
B. 24
C. 34
D. 35
Answer: C. 34
85. Who wrote Theaetetus?
A. thales
B. aristotle
C. plato
D. anaxagoras
Answer: C. plato
86. Who said that true knowledge lies in conceptual level?
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. protagoras
D. anaximander
Answer: B. aristotle
87. ——stated that the best possible political system (state) will be ruled by
philosophers.
A. aristotle
B. sophists
C. socrates
D. plato
Answer: D. plato
88. Whose philosophy is that one who knows the difference between
knowledge, ignorance, and opinion
A. leucippus
B. plato
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Answer: B. plato
89. The perceptible world (i.e., the world we perceive through our senses) is
a reflection or copy of that higher intelligible world is the philosophy of ——
A. plato
B. anaxagoras
C. aristotle
D. socrates
Answer: A. plato
90. The Greek word for ?forms? in Plato is ———
A. hyle
B. logos
C. eidos
D. philos
Answer: C. eidos
91. Plato divided human soul into ——-parts
A. three
B. two
C. four
D. all are false
Answer: A. three
92. Plato?s Theory of Ideas was severely criticized by ——-
A. protogoras
B. socrates
C. aristotle
D. all is true
Answer: C. aristotle
93. Plato admit the immortality of soul in his —- dialogue
A. apology
B. republic
C. theaetetus
D. phaedo
Answer: D. phaedo
94. ———-is a philosopher who was born at Stagira
A. aristotle
B. plato
C. socrates
D. thles
Answer: A. aristotle
95. Which of the following philosopher who taught Alexander, the Great
A. leucippus
B. plato
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Answer: D. aristotle
96. Which thinker who went to Athens and joined Plato?s Academy.
A. anaxagoras
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. socrates
Answer: C. aristotle
97. The works of—— are divided into two types-exoteric and esoteric.
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. st.augustine
D. st.anselm
Answer: B. aristotle
98. Who wrote the famous work the Metaphysics?
A. aristotle
B. plato
C. socrates
D. st. augustine
Answer: A. aristotle
99. Who defined substance is something that we can point out as ?this?
A. st. augustine
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. pythagoras
Answer: C. aristotle
100. Who made the statement that Universals are extremely real but are not
separable from their particulars.
A. socrates
B. aquinas
C. plato
D. aristotle
Answer: D. aristotle
101. Who says that there are two state of being i.e., Potentiality and Actuality.
A. aristotle
B. anselm
C. aquinas
D. thale
Answer: A. aristotle
102. According to Aristotle, there are nine Categories and one—-
A. universal
B. logic
C. substance
D. god
Answer: C. substance
103. St. Thomas Aquinas was very much influenced the philosophy of ——-
A. plato
B. st. anselm
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Answer: D. aristotle
104. St. Augustin based his philosophy and theology on the teachings of ——
A. thales
B. pythagoras
C. socrates
D. plato
Answer: D. plato
105. According to Augustine the lowest level of knowledge is called ——
A. sensation
B. reason
C. god
D. noumena
Answer: A. sensation
106. St. Augustine says that knowledge of Divine is through —
A. phenomena
B. perception
C. soul
D. sensation
Answer: C. soul
107. Who wrote the work the proslogium
A. plato
B. socrates
C. tales
D. st. anselm
Answer: D. st. anselm
108. Who is famous for the so-called ontological argument for the existent of
god?
A. st. anselm
B. socrates
C. plato
D. all are false
Answer: A. st. anselm
109. Who is called the father of Scholasticism?
A. anaxagoras
B. st. anselm
C. aristotle
D. socrates
Answer: B. st. anselm
110. According to——,we have two sources of knowledge: faith and reason.
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. st.anselm
D. socrates
Answer: C. st.anselm
111. St. Augustine was very much influenced by the philosophy of–
A. aristotle
B. plato
C. socrates
D. anselm
Answer: B. plato
112. ——–is considered as the founder of the atomistic school.
A. thales
B. anaxiander
C. leucippus
D. aristotle
Answer: C. leucippus
113. Crito is a work of—-
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. socrates
D. protagoras
Answer: A. plato
114. Aristotle gives ——–supreme categories of thought.
A. eight
B. ten
C. nine
D. seven
Answer: B. ten
115. According to———–faith and reason are neither mutually exclusive nor contradictory but are mutually complementary
A. socrates
B. plato
C. aristotle
D. st.augustine,
Answer: D. st.augustine,
116. St. Anselm?s ontological argument proceeds from the idea of God to God as———-as existent.
A. an idea
B. the cause
C. a reality
D. a number
Answer: C. a reality